1. The Arts during the Industrial Age
A New Culture:
The Arts during the Industrial Age

2. Romanticism

3. The Romantic Revolt against Reason
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility
-- William Wordsworth
Complete Poetical Works

4. Romanticism
writers, artists, and composers rebelled against the Enlightenment (emphasized reason and progress)
Romanticism glorified nature and sought to excite strong emotion
Writers created the Romantic Hero – a character that was mysterious, a loner, hid a secret, but we love ‘em
Use historic heroes/ideas/events

5. Claude Le Lorrain Widely known landscape romantic and illuminist.
Represents nature as serene, harmonious, and often majestic.
Harbour Scene (1634, Hermitage, St Petersburg) he shows the sun on the horizon, and characteristically uses the sun to give the painting depth.

6. Jacques Louis David

7. Romanticism

8. John Constable, The White Horse

9. Francisco Goya – The Shooting Napoleon’s troops excuted Spaniards

10. Washington Crossing the Brazos

11. Realism

12. A Call back to Realism Mid 1800s, started in the west
Represent the world as it is
No idealism, no rose colored glasses
Artists focused on the harsh side of like in cities or villages
Committed to exposing the conditions of people and trying to improve them.
Slums, factories

13. Third Class Carriage

14. Impressionism

15. “Impressing” beginnings
1840 photography was invented so painting became less important.
“Why try for realism when a photo can do much better?”
Groups of painters went in a new direction
Sought to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object on the viewer’s eye.
Began in Paris

16. Claude Monet – impressionist

30. Postimpressionism

31. Postimpressionists developed a variety of styles.
George Seurat – small dots of color to define shapes
Vincent Van Gogh – sharp brush lines and bright colors
Paul Gaugin – sharp lines/flat people
convey feeling and intensity

32. Paul Cezanne

33. Vincent van Gogh – Postimpressionist

35. Starry Night – one of the most famous painting by van Gogh

36. The Olive Branch

42. Define the following – Due today, test Friday
Bessemer Process
Alfred Nobel
Thomas Edison
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister
Natural Selection
Darwinism
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Ludwig von Beethoven
Charles Dickens